del.icio.us links for 2006-08-31

• Bloggermann: Feeling morally, intellectually confused?: Dissent and disagreement with government is the life’s blood of human freedom; and not merely because it is the first roadblock against the kind of tyranny the men Mr. Rumsfeld likes to think of as “his” troops still fight, this very evening, in Ira (media news politics rant war iraq)
• eWeek | Django: Python on a Plane: Where is Samuel L. Jackson when you need him? (django python web programming framework)
• udk: oood.py - a simple daemon for OpenOffice.org: oood.py is a daemon, which controls a pool of 'anonymous' office instances (workers). The workers can be used as backend for Java/python/C++ batch processes for document conversion, mail merges, etc. (openoffice python)
• Python isn't just Java without the compile | 2006-08-30 | BitWorking: One of the advantages of a dynamic language is the ability to drop the compile from the edit/compile/run cycle, but there is much more to it than that. (python java django productivity programming)
• ACTION COMICS NO. 1: The original golden age comic. Interesting if only for some of the techniques. Even then, Superman was kind of a dick, pretending to be a pussy. (art comic history design superman)
• anders.com: djbdns / tinydns Record Builder: Some newer data types such as SRV and NAPTR records aren't nativly supported by tinydns but can be represented through the generic record syntax. These tools create standard djbdns records for these record types. (djb dns tool web tinydns djbdns spf)